Coin-controlled apparatus.



No 885,277. PATENTED APR. 21 1908.- I. NELSON. COIN CONTROLLEDAPPARATUS.

APBLIOATION FILED JULY 31, 1907.

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110. 885,277. PATENTED APR. 21} 1908.

- I. NELSON.

COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31. 1007.

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UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

IVAR NELSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

Application filed July 31, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ivan NELSON, citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in

j the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention is a coin-controlled apparatus, particularly intended forthe delivery of change, such as five pennies for a nickel, but adaptedfor delivering or vending any kind of merchandise by means of check orcoin-controlled devices which act to release the delivery appliances.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whichFigure 1 is a top plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation.Fig. 3 is a front elevation.

In all of the views above mentioned the wall of the casing of themachine in front of the interior mechanism has been removed for thepurpose of showing such mechanism. The side walls of the casing areindicated at B and the bottom at A, and on said bottom are fastened fourpillars or uprights O on which is mounted or supported a rectangularframe D. In the sides of this frame are slits d in which the projectingguide 6 of a slide E are slidable back and forth, so that said slide Emay be reciprocated. In the particular machine herein described, theslide E has the thickness of a pile of five pennies, and it has a holeor recess 6* slightly larger in diameter than a penny.

Above the slide E is a magazine or feeding tube Fin which the stock ofpennies is placed and this tube is located directly above the hole e inthe normal or retracted position of the slide E. A board or shelf G islocated under the slide E and nori'nally supports the pennies orarticles to be delivered, in the hole 6 The tube F is held in place byarms ll projecting from a post I secured to the bottom A and standingbeside the frame. The arms H are fastened by screws and may be detachedto allow the substitution of a larger tube F, or a tube of differentshape, and also to allow the tube F to be raised or lowered to adjustitself to the thickness of the slide which may be used for coins orgoods of different kinds. Said. slide may be niodifed accordingly.

The slide E is advanced by means of a lever N connected to the slideand. pivoted at m to a bracket M supported on one of the pillars C. Oneend of the lever is connected to the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

Serial No. 386,325.

slide, and the other is connected to a push red O which. works in guidesin the frame and extends through the front thereof where it is providedwith a knob O. A spring Q is connected to the rear end of the slide andtends to retract the same.

The slot tube for the deposit of the operating coin is indicated at Jand leads to a lever L which is pivoted at 5. One arm of the lever ismovable up and down in the tube, or between the side walls thereof, andsaid lever is provided with a weight Z which acts to hold the other armof the said lever down upon the frame 1). At the front end of the boardG is a chute P leading to the delivery cup P on the outside of thecasing.

The slide E is provided on its upper side, adjacent one edge thereof,with a shoulder e in front of which the detent lever L engages when innormal position, and which acts to prevent the advance of the slide E.When a coin is dropped in the slot it strikes the detent lever L andlifts the other arm of the same from in front of the shoulder andthereby unlocks the slide so that it can be ad vanced by pushing in 011the red O, and when the slide advances the pennies or goods in the holetherein drop over the edge of the bottom board G into the dischargechute. A strip c is located on the frame D in front of the detent leverL, and serves to support said lever and to prevent any forcibleoperation by pressure on the knob O which might otherwise be sufficientto break or bend the detent lever.

In order to hold the detent lever in unlocked position until the slideis operated the following means are provided. One of the guides c of theslide E is extended as at e and connects to a bent lever It which ispivoted on a post T and is connected by a wire r to a lever 1" which inturn is connected to a lever S fulcrumed on a post V, the lever beingfulcrumed on a post U. The front end of the lever S normally occupies aposition in front of the discharge outlet from the tube J so that itwill block the passage of a coin at said outlet until the lever islifted. W'hen the slide E is advanced its connections to the lever S actto cause the front end of said lever to be lifted from its positionacross the discharge end of the tube J, thereby allowing the coin, whichup to that time will have rested on the detent lever L, to escape anddrop into the casing. Thereby, in consequence of the lever S, the coinremains at rest upon the detent lever L until the delivery slide isactuated, when the coin is released and the slide is retracted for thenext operation, bringing the lever S again in position across the end ofthe coin tube.

It will be understood that the detent lever .L is operated by the weightof the coin, and

it should be stated that the part e is inclined at the back so that whenthe slide is retracted the detent lever will ride up the same and dropover the front thereof to lock the parts against operation except by thedeposit of a proper coin.

lever connected at one end to said laterallyv extending arm, a stopprojecting across the outlet end of the coin chute, to hold the coin onthe detent lever, and connections between the bent lever and the stop,the bent lever being actuated by advance of the slide to release thecoin.

2. In a check-controlled apparatus, the combination of a delivery slide,having a laterally extending arm, a coin chute, a detent lever one armof which projects under the discharge end of the chute in position toreceive a coin and the other arm of which is normally engaged with theslide, a stop lever extending laterally and movable up and down acrossthe discharge end of the chute, and in position normally to stop andhold a coin upon said lever, and connections between the arm laterallyextending and the stop lever, adapted to lift the latter and allow thecoin to fall when the slide is ad vanced.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

IVAR NELSON.

Witnesses:

NELLIE FELTsKoG, H. G. BATOHELOR..

